Salmon’s plan of Nottingham

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Plan of the Town of Nottingham and its Environs (from a special survey)

SALMON, Edward W.
James Wyld,
1862
Engraved map in six sheets, each sheet backed on canvas (635 by 810mm), original slipcase with publisher's label, rubbed, green clamshell case.
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A highly detailed town plan of Nottingham. Nottingham was a flourishing city in the mid-nineteenth century, bolstered by the Industrial Revolution. The first lace machines had been brought to the city in 1809, and it was soon the centre of British lace manufacturing. Unfortunately, the rapid expansion of population required to support this industrial expansion created huge swathes of slums, known as the worst in the British Empire. After the local landowner, the Duke of New...

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University of Nottingham East Midlands Special Collection Not 3.B8.E6.